Forbes November 12, 2019
Answer by Caesar Djavaherian, Co-founder of Carbon Health, on Quora:
There are many challenges in making electronic health records more integrated, including endless customization, vendor market share protection, health system market share protection, and technological factors. These are just some of the challenges of making EHRs more integrated. I’ll focus on the customization issue.
Currently, if you are a health system running an instance of the leading enterprise EHR systems and across the street is a different health system using the same EHR vendor as you, the two systems would not directly communicate with each other because they have been customized to such an extent that the data elements would not directly match up. So a patient who is...
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